Jill Magid engages the disciplining systems in current society, such as police, CCTV, and forensic artists, among others. Exploiting the latent possibilities of their services, her work evokes questions of presence, memory, and subjectivity rather than success-rate or functionality. Weaving narrative patterns, the artist distills and presents her experience via text, sculpture, video and performance. The viewer takes the role of a witness, an observer of events that have previously transpired.

“I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures.”

After receiving a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, Magid relocated to Amsterdam, NL as a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, and has since been showing internationally. A solo exhibition of her new works, Libration Point, was recently exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. Her work has been included in shows at De Appel in Amsterdam, Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art curated by Michael Rush at the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois, Positioning statement | Image Cairo 3 in Cairo, Egypt, DMZ 2005_Korea: A project between North and South Korea, and at the Liverpool Biennial International ’04.
Jill Magid is currently a visiting artist at Cooper Union in New York City.